Memes are mental viruses. They create positive feedback loops. Unlike most other forms of media, memes do not tend to fatigue or oversaturate their viewers. Instead, the more one sees a meme, the more one wants to see that meme more.
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Thomas Jorion spent ten years photographing the faded glory of empty palaces and summer homes.
— VICE Italy, Take a Look Inside Some Abandoned Secret Mansions in Italy
Sometimes, keeping your distance is the best thing you can do for your healing heart.
We talked with Landyn Pan, a trans-masculine and non-binary photographer, about creating a safe space for trans people and their take on representation in media.
Most plants are still purchased at garden centers or big-box retailers like Home Depot and Walmart, which mainly carry inexpensive, hardy varieties tailored to novice buyers.
— Matthew Boyle, The One Thing Millennials Haven’t Killed Is Houseplants
You’ve done nothing wrong. I miss my friends. I miss my family. No one knows except for one or two people who have seen us that we are seeing each other again.
— Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, For Girls Who Use Spotify To Heal Heartaches In March
I believed I needed to prove my value by fixing the most brilliant, beautiful object in the room, rather than recognizing my own worth as a subject.
— Nicole Peeler, A Personal History of Dating Men With ‘Potential’
Clever designs should always be made as foolproof as possible, and/or tested on actual users. Sometimes, clever designs can backfire and hurt usability.
Traditionally, young people imitated their elders for a simple reason: old people held the power. But they no longer have it.
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Interview with Robert Pogue Harrison
Perhaps this may come as a surprise, but neither local nor state police have jurisdiction over which accounts are allowed to remain on Instagram.
— Emily Alford, Instagram Influencer Reports Deleted Account to Police
Isn't it fun to think that a woman who had to wear a crown also wore a baseball cap embroidered with one?
— Rachel Tashjian, The Real King of Street Style Right Now Is Princess Di
Later, Univision wrote off its investments in FMG, GMG and The Onion, claiming a loss of $32.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.
— Sahil Patel, Inside Univision's troubled acquisition of Gizmodo and The Onion
Last year, GMG and The Onion combined generated roughly $80 to $85 million in overall revenue, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But with all expenses added up, the organization was tens of millions in the red, sources said.
— Sahil Patel, Inside Univision's troubled acquisition of Gizmodo and The Onion
An over-the-counter herbal drug has been linked to more deaths in recent years, federal health officials say.
— Ryan W. Miller, Herbal drug kratom linked to almost 100 overdose deaths, CDC says
How could I ever change things that I feel?
This Sunday night, HBO’s Game of Thrones begins its six-episode march to the end after nearly two years off the air.
— Brandon Katz, Will HBO Set a Ratings Record With the ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Premiere?
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be Baby, just let it be
What is their legit reason for not liking me? They've never met me in person. How can you hate me from a computer? How can you write a paragraph about someone and hate them so much after just seeing a video of them?
— Jessy Taylor, Lindsay Dodgson, The Instagram influencer whose 100,000-strong following got wiped says she called the police because it felt like 'a murder'
The body remains a battleground. Politicised, conceptualised and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of the ‘post-industrial’ body … leaving us dreaming of other bodies and alternate…
— Nathalie Herschdorfer, Tom Seymour, New book offers up a history of the body in photography
Hoodies then became really popular in the 1990s, thanks to the fashion brand Champion.
— Shop Catalog, The Best Cute Hoodies For Woman And Girls In 2019